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In this file photo, Ford Mustangs are lined up at a dealership in San Jose, Calif. (Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)

Ford 1Q net rises 22 percent as cars are winning higher prices

Ford Motor Co., the second-largest U.S. automaker, said first-quarter profit rose 22 percent to the most for the period since 1998 as it won higher prices for fuel- efficient new models.

Bloomberg

Ford’s 1Q earnings rise to $2.6B

Detroit Free Press

US Supreme Court to consider privacy in data mining case

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in Vermont’s efforts to prevent pharmacies from sharing with drug companies information about doctors’ prescription writing practices.

CNBC

Blog:

Rethinking Sorrell vs. IMS Health: Privacy as a First Amendment value

(Wall Street Journal)

Law

Missouri levee break feared imminent

Emergency officials and residents nervously waited as the Black River in southeastern Missouri threatened to break through a levee. Police were going house to house to warn of “catastrophic failure.”

CNN

Levees ready to burst as rain continues

Modesto Bee

Days of rain flood Missouri towns

CBS News

NATO kills senior Afghan al-Qaida leader

U.S.-led NATO forces killed most-wanted al-Qaida member Abu Hafs al-Najdi, also known as Abdul Ghani, in an airstrike April 13 according to an International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) statement.

McClatchy Newspapers

Official: 65 recaptured after Afghan jail break

MSNBC

States face growing pension gaps

States are short $1.26 trillion in paying for public employee pensions and other retirement benefits, a gap that grew 26 percent in one year and will take many more years to wipe out.

Reuters

State retiree benefits gap grows

CNNMoney

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Peter Lounsbery of Albany plays bagpipes outside the new home of the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany, N.Y. (Photo by Mike Groll / AP)	An “Almadraba” tuna is lifted by a crane during the opening of the season for tuna fishing in the port of Barbate, Cadiz province, southern Spain. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti / AP)	Maxxis, owned by Robert and Elizabeth Apt, looks on during the Drake Relays Beautiful Bulldog Contest in Des Moines, Iowa. (Photo by Charlie Neibergall / AP)

NATION

More twisters expected after storm killed 7 in Ark.

Tornadoes and floods, which killed seven people in Arkansas and left thousands without power, threatened at least two more days of destruction, weather forecasters said.

Reuters

Leaks reveal view of detainees’ risk

Secret documents about detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison reveal new information about some of the men the U.S. believes to be terrorists. The government called the leak “unfortunate.”

CBS News

Gitmo files rewrite the story of Osama bin Laden’s Tora Bora escape

Guardian

Blog:

WikiLeaks roundup: Gitmo is only the latest of their 2011 revelations

(CNN)

This Just In

Texas may strip away transgender marriage rights

Two years after Texas became one of the last states to allow transgendered people to use proof of their sex change to get a marriage license, Republican lawmakers are trying to roll back the clock.

Columbus Dispatch

Special section:

Milestones in the American gay rights movement

PBS

POLITICS

Proposition 8 supporters move to erase ruling due to judge being gay

Backers of California’s same-sex marriage ban moved to wipe out a ruling declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional, saying the judge should have stepped aside because he is in a same-sex relationship.

San Jose Mercury News

Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour to skip 2012 presidential race

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a prolific fundraiser well-known in Washington circles, says he will not run for the GOP presidential nomination next year.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Ron Paul says he’ll announce 2012 presidential exploratory committee

(The Hill)

Briefing Room

HEALTH

Is depression actually good for you?

Experts now believe that mild to moderate depression may be good for us — and even help us live longer.

The Independent

Tai chi improves mood and health of heart patients

Tai chi, often called “meditation in motion,” appears to improve the quality of life in people with heart failure, say researchers at Harvard Medical School.

WebMD

Botox injections can dull ability to read emotion in others

Having Botox injections to smooth facial wrinkles dulls people’s ability to read emotions in others, said a study published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science recently.

Medical News Today

EDUCATION

Should children be made to play chess?

Every child aged six or over in Armenia is now destined to learn chess. The authorities believe compulsory lessons will “foster intellectual development” and help critical thinking skills.

BBC

School improvement grant efforts face hurdles a year later

More than a year after the U.S. Department of Education supercharged the program targeting the nation’s lowest performing schools with cash and a big makeover, states are sorting through logistical issues.

Education Week

ENVIRONMENT

More flooding, less salmon habitat predicted for West

Global warming could increase flooding, shrink salmon habitat and invite in more invasive species in the West. Snow will melt sooner, rain will replace snow and fisheries will stress out.

McClatchy Newspapers

Climate change to reduce US, West water supply

BBC

Green energy from estuaries

Researchers at Stanford University recently published details of a battery which uses changes in salinity to produce electricity.

Earth Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

IQ tests seem to measure effort, not just intelligence

An IQ score may say more about whether you’re a hard worker or a slacker than about how smart you are.

LiveScience

Social media firms gain as users share personal information

Sharing everything you do in your life has never been easier. And companies are popping up at a fast and furious pace to grab their own slice of that ecosystem of sharing.

San Francisco Chronicle

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The Daily Quote

“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”

C.S. Lewis

British scholar and novelist

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Wall Street Journal

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MLB.com

Computers: Microsoft April 26 at 9 pm

Microsoft

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GOOD NEWS

On a continental road trip to promote volunteerism with 50Give

Keith Donohue built trail signs for Acadia National Park in Maine. Now he’s working with autistic children in Vermont. It’s all part of his one-man, cross-country volunteer road trip, 50Give.

AOL News

50Give pit-stop

YouTube

Darell Hammond wants to ignite a KaBOOM! in building public playgrounds

Darell Hammond, founder of KaBOOM!, talks about why kids need unstructured playtime and efforts to map “play deserts” where playgrounds need to be built or renovated.

Christian Science Monitor

Rock ‘n’ roll fantasy camp

Rock Camp for Dads, held each month at a former printing plant in St. Louis Park, Minn., brings together regular folks whose “other jobs” keep them from being in bands.

Star Tribune